The Assault is the latest Lifetime Original Movie, this time covering a football team drugging and sexually assaulting a female student and no one believing her. From the subject matter, this might be set a bit more serious than the usual overdone drama. But from the pictures of Makenzie Vega dousing herself in gasoline on the football field while wearing her cheerleader uniform, maybe it will still be campy. The only way to know is to watch it yourself!
The Assault stars Makenzie Vega (Saw), Khandi Alexander (Newsradio), Malik Yoba, Gary Weeks, Amy Bruckner, Maya Morales, Michael Cognata, and Kayla Harrity.
The Assault is directed by Jason Winn (The Adventures of Paula Peril) and written by Jennifer Maisel (Double Wedding). They are not Lifetime regulars, but that doesn’t necessarily mean anything in regards to the quality of the film.
After a cheerleader is sexual assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she can’t remember in her fight for justice.
The Assault premieres Saturday, September 20th on Lifetime
via Lifetime
4 Comments
Monica
September 11, 2014 at 1:38 pmIf I understand correctly, the movie was made independently and then sold to Lifetime. I’ve seen the production company trailer and it seem like an awful movie. But I’ll watch it because it has Khandi and Makenzie
Tars Tarkas
September 12, 2014 at 8:24 pmMakes sense, and as it was outside of Lifetime there is more variation in quality so who knows how good it will end up. Here’s hoping!
Kari
September 13, 2014 at 2:21 pmEvery single movie you watch on Lifetime was made by an independent production company. They are almost never made directly by Lifetime, and even if they were they would vary stylistically anyways. The only thing that makes any film a “Lifetime” movie is that they chose it to air on their network. I’m very curious where you would have seen the production company trailer…those don’t exist?
Adam
September 14, 2014 at 10:16 amClick “view trailer”: http://www.marvista.net/Details.aspx?id=f27f07b9-292a-e311-a94e-d4ae527c3b65